National Affairs: Girdled for War

When rattle-tongued Washington society columnist Mary ("Molly") Van
Rensselaer Thayer fell in love with the Air Force, she made it plain
that she expected plenty of reciprocation. Though Molly writes all her
copy lying in bed, her enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous
exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the
Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four
interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it,
too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon.

But these were only minor loves; her affair with the Air Force had the
quality...